HI. Thanks for visiting my website.               Here I am, atop a frame during a raising

    A finished frame at the end of the day

Unlike today's conventional framing, Timber Framing is elegant,  with craftsmanship that you want to see and show off, not to be hidden inside the walls.  Even after enclosing you can still see all the frame inside, for a warm comfortable living envirment.

Green Building.  Timber framing is a natural fit for building green, we use sustainable wood, have very little waste and craft with hand tools, then combine this with straw bale, passive & active solar, radiant heat, and rain water collection, and we can provide a very high quality and natural product that will last and be sustainable for years to come.

Here are pictures showing typical community Hand raising.  where we assemble the beams into bent structures and raise by hand.

My crew and I are cutting a frame at my "shop". Our tools and techniques hail from the early 1800's and we still hand craft each frame this way.

These pictures show a typical crane raising with just my crew. We still build bents, but a crane puts them and all the other beams into place.  This works very well but isn't nearly as fun.

Barn Raisings are about Community, bringing friends, neighbors and family together to build sustainably, help one another,  & do all with a wonderful sense of accomplishment.

We at the Barn Raisers can provide this kind of product, both the building and the event, Just like we did in the 3 pictures above at Yale University